In Honor of Last Night's GIRLS: What's the Biggest Lie You Told Yourself in Your 20s?

We may have had some mixed feelings on GIRLS' sophomore season debut--but last night things got good. Slow-clap good. And what I loved the most was the clinic our quartet put on in that national twentysomething pastime: totally #@$!-ing kidding yourself. (No wonder our guy blogger Ben is feeling sorta sorry for the lot of them.)

Let's review.

Marnie said that she's found the "best job ever" in her new hot-hostess position.

Jessa--with a look of drugged serenity on her face--said that "this is what it's like when the hunt is over." (My God, did that statement have "famous last words" written all over it or what?)

Shoshanna said "how are you, I'm amazing"--which is actually completely valid for the moment. Key words, as always, in the life of Shoshanna: "for the moment." Right now, in a parallel fictional universe, Shoshanna is shrieking at Ray over his lukewarm reaction to a sock-bun she was particularly proud of.

And Hannah, dear Hannah--in one of my favorite so-Hannah storylines ever, Lena's alter-ego ditched Donald's because he was a Republican didn't like her essay.

Your prideful secret's safe with all of us, Horvath--we've been there. Little-known fact: the most common method of burning calories in your twenties is trying to convince yourself you're doing the right thing. What? The gym's expensive. Raise your hand if you've ever cancelled a membership after doing math of the "do you know how many shirts I could get for that monthly fee?" variety.

Also: raise your hand if you, too, lied to yourself on a regular basis during that first real decade of adulthood. Yeah. I'm now typing this with one hand. I told myself a zillion lies in my twenties (I'm 28, so let's hope the biggest doozies are out of the way), but I can sum them all up in one heading: There Will Probably Always Be More Time and There Will Definitely Always Be More Money!

Maybe you've hit up that category with me--or maybe you humored yourself on something else entirely. But I'm betting that you Marnied or Hannahed it up on at least one big issue in your twenties--now share, so I'm not alone on this! And tell me what you thought of ep 2.